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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
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"Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?"
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"Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light."
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"Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
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"The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."
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"If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing."
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"Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!"
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"There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell."
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"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
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"There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!"
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"If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation."
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"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
Biography
"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."
Cities
"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
Language
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
History
"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
Athens
"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
Heaven
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
God
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
History
"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."
Past
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
Love
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